How did the Conservative Party under Boris Johnson and the Republicans under Trump
successfully reinvent themselves as the parties of the ?left behind' and advance ever-more
establishment and authoritarian goals? For Ash Sarkar the roots of this are to be found in the
years since the 2007 financial crisis a period of huge social and economic shift which has
been central to the right's dangerous political strategy of constructing reactionary electoral
majorities. She has named this the Minority Rule project. In this ground-breaking book Ash
Sarkar explores how the Minority Rule project has taken over our politics by stoking fear and
panic in our media landscape: how liberal elites are silencing the ?forgotten' working class
how the urban young are waging war on the nation's cultural institutions and how cancel
culture is threatening free speech. Powerful insightful and ultimately hopeful Minority
Rule breaks down how the right has misrepresented true victimhood and aims to redirect outrage
to those who deserve it.
